Wendy Brown is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California in Berkeley and is the author of, amongst many others, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Zone Books 2010) Celikates & Jansen (‘C&J’): Let us start with a general question about...
Jodi Dean teaches political and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited eleven books, including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies and most recently The Communist Horizon (Verso, October 2012). Biebricher & Celikates ('B&C'): You...
Some consider civil disobedience too radical; an attempt to procure political power under the mantle of moral principles or a one-sided renunciation of the duty to obey and uphold the law, and that is not to be tolerated. Citizens in functioning democracies must limit...